Stefano Sorrentino is Master Researcher at Ericsson Research in Stockholm, Sweden, where he has been employed for nine years and currently coordinates automotive-related research activities. He is also Chairman for the System Architecture and Solution Development group in the 5G Automotive Association (5GAA). Stefano has 6 years of 3GPP experience as RAN1 delegate with occasional participation also in other groups, covering a range of LTE topics including MIMO, Coordinated Multipoint Processing (CoMP), Sidelink/D2D and V2X. Stefano was also appointed to chair RAN1 ad-hoc sessions on topics related to Downlink CoMP for about one year during LTE Rel-11. He has attended several international conferences as author or panelist and has contributed to a number of IEEE publications. Previous experience includes a graduate-researcher position at Politecnico di Milano (Italy) and a researcher position at Siemens/Nokia Siemens Networks, where he contributed primarily to the EU Project Winner II and to WiMax-related research.

Kwang-Cheng Chen received the B.S. from the National Taiwan University in 1983, and the M.S. and Ph.D from the University of Maryland, College Park, United States, in 1987 and 1989, all in electrical engineering. From 1987 to 1998, Dr. Chen worked with SSE, COMSAT, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, and National Tsing Hua University, in mobile communications and networks. During 1998-2016, he was a Distinguished Professor with National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, and served various administrative positions in the College of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. Since 2016, Dr. Chen is a Professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering, University of South Florida, Tampa, USA. He visited HP Labs, Palo Alto, in 1997; Delft University of Technology, Netherlands, in 1998; Aalborg University, Denmark, in 2008; Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012-2013 and 2015-2016. In late 1990’s, he was adjunct appointed by the Executive Yuan, the Republic of China, to engineer Taiwan’s telecommunication deregulation and to design the foundation of Taiwan’s National Communication Commission (similar to FCC in the US). Dr. Chen founded a wireless IC design company in 2001, which was acquired by the MediaTek Inc. in 2004. He has been actively involving in the organization of various IEEE conferences as General/TPC/Executive chair/co-chair (2002 IEEE GLOBECOM, 2010 IEEE VTC-Spring, and 2020 IEEE GLOBECOM and many others), serving editorships with a few IEEE journals, and various IEEE volunteer services such as IEEE Fellow Committee, IEEE VTS Fellow Evaluation Committee, IEEE VTS Distinguished Lecturer, etc. He founds and chairs the Technical Committee on Social Networks in the IEEE Communications Society. Dr. Chen also has contributed essential patented technology to various international standards like IEEE 802 wireless LANs, Bluetooth, LTE and LTE-A. He has authored and co-authored over 300 IEEE publications and 23 granted US patents. He co-edited (with R. DeMarca) the book Mobile WiMAX published by Wiley, and authored the book Principles of Communications published by River, and co-authored (with R. Prasad) another book Cognitive Radio Networks published by Wiley. Dr. Chen is an IEEE Fellow through the Communications Society and has received a number of awards including 2011 IEEE COMSOC WTC Recognition Award, 2014 IEEE Jack Neubauer Memorial Award, 2014 IEEE COMSOC AP Outstanding Paper Award. Dr. Chen’s current research interests include wireless networks, IoT/CPS, social networks and data analytics, and cybersecurity, with the most recent effort to develop the wireless platform for Smart Tampa with the city government of Tampa.